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Ellis Lane runs the rule over London Irish's Marland Yarde and Topsy Ojo and Bath's Anthony Watson and Semesa Rokoduguni.

After a quiet opening, Yarde was the first to catch the eye, working hard as a strike runner and a dummy runner.

Rokoduguni ploughed down the centre of the field in the ninth minute and it took three men to stop his charge.

Irish tried several times to put Yarde through a hole, then Ojo had the crowd roaring when he burst through a narrow gap from a training ground move off the top of the lineout. He stepped the full-back and scrambled over the line, but referee Greg Garner pulled play back for a forward pass by Shane Geraghty.

Yarde’s excellent chase won the Exiles a lineout in the Bath 22 as he took Rokoduguni, man and ball into touch.

Yarde conceded an easy penalty for George Ford, but was an ever willing dummy runner and receiver, keeping the Bath defence on guard, particularly when he came down the centre channel.

Yarde's running off the ball helped Shane Geraghty make the break that led to Ojo’s try.

Ojo burrowed over after Geraghty had been brought down a yard from the line.

Yarde chased the ball down well in the 45th minute to stop Rokodugini from scoring.

Both wings were forced into living off scraps and each knocked on trying to collect difficult passes.

Rokodugini restricted Yarde's room and was only beaten once by the English wing.

Watson , however, was outstanding on Bath's right wing. He was always looking for the ball and made several searing breaks.

Watson's switch early in the second half with full-back Nick Abendanon was top quality and left him in acres of space.

And Watson piled on the misery for his former club when he got on the end of another Abendanon run to finish in the corner.

Irish claimed obstruction as Abendanon went through but, after viewing the video screen, referee Garner allowed the try to stand and Bath went on to clinch a 44-23 win at Madejski Stadium.